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We sailed through ‘Pirate Alley’ (the Gulf of Aden) in 2010 and although it was a tense passage it was not something we took lightly. We researched and researched, joined organisations, followed piracy updates, studied piracy attack maps and were in constant communication with naval task forces from the south of the Red Sea to India.

The number of people we meet cruising the Indian Ocean and its environs who have no knowledge of the latest piracy situation is worrying. We believe in arming ourselves with as much up-to-date information on piracy before making an informed decision as to whether it is a safe passage or not. With this in mind in 2010 we started providing a free piracy alert service.

The best place to get these updates is either this page or our piracy_update Twitter service, which sends updates out to over 1,700 seafarers. Sources include the BBC, Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, Twitter, ICC, Reuters and various African and Middle Eastern publications.

You may subscribe to our daily piracy email or weekly piracy email. If you are on low-bandwidth email then don’t forget to select ‘text-only’ version of the weekly email. To get piracy attack alert emails click here. If you prefer RSS ^[?] use this link to subscribe to daily RSS. See the right-hand column for more subscription options including Followtheboat’s Twitter piracy update for up-to-the-minute alerts.

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ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Latest Data

The ICC IMB offer a great 24-hour manned piracy update service on Twitter, which we recommend following.

Updated on 16 September 2014. Source: ICC

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Worldwide incidents

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Somali related incidents

Sixteen reported incidents but no hi-jackings

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Current crew / vessels held by Somali pirates

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West Africa related incidents

33 reported incidents including four hijacking.

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